The MRCT Center – AVAREF virtual training course for Ethics Review of Clinical Research concluded in April 2022. The course included participants from 22 different countries across Africa and was simultaneously translated into French.
Case-based learnings and breakout room discussions were integrated into course lectures to create a stimulating and engaging virtual learning environment. The MRCT Center looks forward to continuing its partnership with the African Vaccine Regulatory Forum (AVAREF) to build regulatory capacity across Africa.
Presented on: March 24, 2022 at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
The practice of returning IRR is consistently identified by participants as something that participants not only desire but also expect. Returning IRR demonstrates participant-centricity and respect.
A taskforce was convened during 2021 to update and further develop the MRCT Center’s guidance on Returning Individual Research Results to Participants – these resources and tools are ready to be shared, on a new, easy-to-navigate, dedicated website.
This one-hour webinar will include a review of IRR and its importance, a patient advocate describing her own lived experience with IRR, and a live demonstration of the new tools and website.
The Proceedings from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) workshop “Adoption of Health Literacy Best Practices to Enhance Clinical Research and Community Participation” were released in March. Barbara Bierer, M.D, Elizabeth Cahn, Ph.D., and Sylvia Baedorf Kassis, M.P.H., are featured.
Developed by: MRCT Center Health Literacy Workgroup
Thank you to Dr. Farah Asif and colleagues at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital And Research Centre, Lahore, Pakistan for helping us translate, adapt text, and provide these flyers in Urdu.
Description: Dr. Gianna “Gigi” McMillan, an academic bioethicist and MRCT Center pediatrics project member, recorded in-depth interviews with three young people from India, Spain, and the US to create this 2-part video series, Time to Listen.
Part 1: Young people share their experience in clinical research, including: what it is like when a doctor or researcher talks to them as a child or adolescent; the best ways to give children and adolescents information; and what the children and adolescents want the adults to know.
Presented at: Advancing International Pediatric Clinical Research webinar series: Assent and Consent in the Field: Culture, Context, and Respect
The second conference in the series, “Time to Listen: Hearing from Young People in Clinical Research,” focused on the perspectives of young people and the adults who care for them in clinical research and product development. The two hour webinar featured a moderated panel and was hosted twice, from 9-11 am EST and 8-10 pm EST, with similar content but different speakers and panelists, to allow for wide attendance and global participation.
Developed by: MRCT Center Health Literacy Workgroup
Thank you to Dr. Farah Asif and colleagues at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital And Research Centre, Lahore, Pakistan for helping us translate, adapt text, and provide these flyers in Urdu.
